Oracle

NASA overspent $15m on Oracle software because it was afraid an audit could cost more

Houston, we have a problem: Millions wasted on license penalties

Software13 Jan 2023 | 40

Larry Ellison mea culpa as traffic cop stops Big Red boss on own island

Maybe pursuit of health and wellness requires driving fast in an orange Corvette

Offbeat10 Jan 2023 | 49

French JV wins contract to upgrade NHS Oracle finance system

After four years of talks, competition goes to incumbent supplier

Databases15 Dec 2022 | 1

IBM to create 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license

Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not?

Systems15 Dec 2022 | 26

Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting

SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23

Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle

Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has

PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7

University orders investigation into Oracle finance disaster

Staff forced to make their own purchases after suppliers walk away due to payment failures

PaaS + IaaS23 Nov 2022 | 47

Warren Buffett buys billions of dollars worth of TSMC stock

There's gold in them there chip mountains? World's sixth richest man seems to think so

Systems15 Nov 2022 | 6

University staff voice 'urgent, profound concern' as Oracle finance system delays payments

Edinburgh Uni says it interrupted its financial processes in summer to test new system

Databases14 Nov 2022 | 39

University of Edinburgh staff paid late due to Oracle ERP troubles

Project beginning in 2019 has left employees and suppliers waiting on payments

Databases03 Nov 2022 | 36

Aviatrix releases tool to help enterprises prevent cloud network costs spiraling

Just as providers prepare to crank up their fees

Networks03 Nov 2022 | 1

Google, Oracle’s Ampere VMs get Arm’s SystemReady seal of approval

So that means everything just works now, right?

PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 |

Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral

AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry

Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7

ServiceNow boss embarks on corporate trolling to get rise out of SAP

Workflow biz ignores digital naysayers, avoids wider malaise in Q3 software spending

SaaS27 Oct 2022 |

Meta met a programming language it likes better than Java

Goggles giant on how it gave its Android apps a Kotlin makeover

Software25 Oct 2022 | 16

SAP struggles to exit Russia after sale of support unit stalled

Datacenters, cloud services shut down but keep maintaining DBs for the nation's businesses

Databases25 Oct 2022 | 5

Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud

But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology

PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11

Oracle's Larry Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

Comment But the solution may need more than a really big database

PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2022 | 41

Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps

Oracle CloudWorld Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first

PaaS + IaaS19 Oct 2022 | 7

US Veterans Affairs hits brakes on $10b Oracle Cerner health record system

Nothing like medical orders routed into /dev/null and other problems to hold up a roll out

Databases14 Oct 2022 | 10

Microsoft attempts to eat Oracle's database lunch with Azure migration service

Ignite Redmond hopes move will lure more to its PostgreSQL managed service

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 5

UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage

Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low

Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11

Oracle VirtualBox 7.0 is here – just watch out for the proprietary Extension Pack

Latest version of FOSS hypervisor boasts support for new 3D acceleration tech and encrypted virtual machines

Virtualization11 Oct 2022 | 37

Oracle's NetSuite tests automation, warehouse management waters

Analyst says challenges remain in attracting partners to roll out products

SaaS28 Sep 2022 | 1

Oracle pays $23 million to SEC to settle bribery charges

India, Turkey, UAE subsidiaries set up slush funds to bribe 'foreign officials' says watchdog

Databases27 Sep 2022 | 8

Oracle extends share options plans, no bumper payday for execs... yet

Not all investors happy that suits get more time to earn significant stock-option awards

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Oracle verifies Java licensing tools from Flexera and Lime Software

While one vendor says they help prepare for audit, expert warns they don't defend compliance

Databases26 Sep 2022 | 4

Businesses can halve 'megavendor' software costs with third-party support

COVID-19, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing inflation, and the threat of recession driving adoption

Software23 Sep 2022 |

Bank of England seeks partner to support Oracle Cloud implementation

After venturing into HCM, UK's central bank embarks on finance and procurement journey with Big Red

Applications22 Sep 2022 | 6

Oracle Cloud at one point would let you access any other customer's data

chmod a+rw at hyperscale

PaaS + IaaS21 Sep 2022 | 5

Oracle brews Java 19. Mmmm, kinda tastes like RISC-V

Upstart CPU integration, incremental improvements – just the way cautious corporate customers like it

Software20 Sep 2022 | 1

Oracle floats its HeatWave system into Amazon's cloud

Avoiding data movement saves $$$ but rivals have own approaches to doing analytics, transactions on same data

PaaS + IaaS13 Sep 2022 | 1

UK's NHS goes to market for $2b HR and payroll system

Plans afoot to replace Oracle EBS/AIX system used by 1.8 million staff dating from 2008

PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2022 | 24

Lawsuit accuses Oracle of facilitating sales of 'billions' of folks' personal data

Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016

Legal23 Aug 2022 | 29

Lessons to be learned from Google and Oracle's datacenter heatstroke

Comment It's getting hot in here so take down all your nodes

On-Prem22 Aug 2022 | 28

Solaris is in maintenance mode – but Oracle added a significant feature anyway

Don’t Panic if you run terabytes of RAM and need to understand a dumped snapshot

OSes19 Aug 2022 | 21

HPE says $30m Solaris verdict against it didn't provide 'evidence' of copyright

Alleges Oracle did not register the patches it claims were infringed

Legal04 Aug 2022 | 18

Oracle staff share news of sizable layoffs

CX and marketing teams seem to have borne the brunt of it

On-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 13

Computer glitches harmed 'nearly 150' patients after Oracle Cerner system go-live

Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle

Software27 Jul 2022 | 40

Oracle to hike support fees in line with inflation

US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe

Applications25 Jul 2022 | 15

Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud

Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps

PaaS + IaaS20 Jul 2022 | 15

Java SE 6 and 7 devs weigh their options as support ends

Decade-old SDKs also among targets for license audits

Software20 Jul 2022 | 12

Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave

Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers' best laid plans

Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 22

Google, Oracle cloud servers wilt in UK heatwave, take down websites

Clouds burst as nation hits 40C

Off-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 66

TikTok's chief security officer steps aside, thanks to Oracle move

Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs

CSO18 Jul 2022 |

Oracle agrees to settle class action over cloud sales tactics for $17.5m

Big Red denies any malpractice in relation to alleged 'coercive' product boosts

Legal13 Jul 2022 | 3

Oracle planning sovereign cloud regions for the EU

Specialized infrastructure for the political bloc will help users deal with GDPR data laws

PaaS + IaaS13 Jul 2022 | 5

'Unbreakable' Oracle Linux 9 is a RHEL rebuild with built-in Btrfs support

Red Hat dropped the file system in 7.4 but Big Red's own kernel has kept hold

OSes12 Jul 2022 | 17

Oracle seeks $1b savings, staff prepare for layoffs

Operating profit crashed 28% in Big Red's fiscal 2022

Software11 Jul 2022 | 10

Florida man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices from China to hospitals, schools, military

Plus, Oracle reportedly mulling laying off staff to cut costs by up to $1b

Networks08 Jul 2022 | 26

Oracle 12.1 users warned as mainstream support ends in July

12.1 friends without benefits as database pros question LTR with Oracle 12.2

Databases08 Jul 2022 | 3

FedEx signals 'zero mainframe, zero datacenter' operations by 2024

Going completely cloud-native will save it $400m a year, CIO estimates

On-Prem05 Jul 2022 | 35

Welsh council extends contract for Oracle EBS 12.1 as it waits for Fusion

Delays risk accounting and government compliance, documents reveal

PaaS + IaaS29 Jun 2022 | 1

Oracle lands London council deal for £12m ERP project

Evosys bags £2m in bid to replace SAP at Borough of Waltham Forest

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 4

Oracle shrinks on-prem cloud offering in both size and cost

Now we can squeeze required boxes into a smaller datacenter footprint, says Big Red

Systems23 Jun 2022 | 2

Oracle sued by one of its own gold-level Partners of the Year over government IT contract

We want $56 million, systems integrator tells court

On-Prem16 Jun 2022 | 6